ENGL275 Final

When was the first world war?

1914-1918

Plus or minus a century, when was the Bhagavad-Gita composed?

4th century B.C.E

In what century did Islam arise?

7th Century C.E.

Nature is a temple who living colonnades/Breathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs/Man wanders among symbols in those glades/Where all things watch him with familiar eyes. Like dwindling echoes gathered far away/into a deep and thronging unison/Huge as the night or as the light of day/all scents and sounds and colors meet as one. Perfumes there are as sweet as the oboe's sound, Green as the prairies, fresh as a childs caress"

Baudelaire, Consequences

There's one more ugly and abortive birth. It makes no gestures, never beats its breast, yet it would murder for a moments rest, and willingly annihilate the earth./ It's BOREDOM.

Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil

Tagore wrote most of his work in what language?

Benagli

Your concern should be with action, Never with an action's fruits; These should never motivate you, Nor attachment to inaction

Bhagavad-Gita

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted/ down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!/A savage place! as holy and enchanted as e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, a mighty fountain momently was forced;

Coleridge, Kubla Khan

Franz Kafka lived in what city?

Czech Republic, spoke German

In that city, the majority language was (and is) _______, but Kafka wrote his work in the _______ language.

Czech, German

Women passed in the yard with a barrow of dripping linen. As she saw them through the window-pane, she remembered her washing; she had put it to soak the day before, today she must wring it out; and she left the room. Her plan and tub were at the edge of the Toucques. She threw a pile of lined on the bank, rolled up her sleeves, and taking her wooden beater dealt lusty blows whose wound carried to the neighboring gardens. The meadows were empty, the river stirred in the wind; and down below the long grasses wavered, like the hair of corpses floating in the water.

Flaubert, A simple heart

Gregor understood perfectly well that it wasn't any regard for him that stood in the way of a move, because all it would have taken was a suitably sized shipping crate, with a few holes drilled in it for him to breathe through; no, what principally kept the family from moving to another flat was their complete and utter despair -- the thought that they in all the circle of relatives and acquaintances had been singled out for such a calamity.

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

When William Wordsworth wrote, 'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven," what specific historical event/period was he referring to as "that dawn"?

French Revolution

Filipo Marinetti wrote a manifesto for what modernist movement?

Futurism

What form does Things Fall Apart use?

Genre, novel with folktales

Who is famous for demanding of himself that he find always le mot juste ("the exact word")?

Gustave Flaubert

Practitioners of which musical genre seem particular taken with Yeats' poem, "The second coming"?

Heavy Metal

The city of Uruk in Gilgamesh is in what modern country?

Iraq

What is the oldest vernacular literature in Europe?

Irish; Dante. Any language that isn't Latin or Greek

H___"Ah Judge -- This act of Eilert Lovborg's -- there's a sense of liberation in it. B ______"Liberation, Mrs. H___? Yes, I guess its a liberation for him, all right. H_____"I mean, for me. It's aliberation for me to know that in this world an act of such courage, done in full, free will, is possible. Something bathed in a bright shaft of sudden beauty"

Isben, Hedda Gabler

With what island is Sappho associated?

Lesbos

______ was a modernist writer who found his rich native culture to be an impediment and cultural innovation rather than a resource.

Lu Xan

I could tell at a glance that they all belonged to the same gang, that they were all cannibals. But at the same time I also realized that they didn't all think the same way. Some thought it's always been like this, and that they really should eat human flesh.

Lu Xan, The Diary of a Madman

I couldn't do this, Farewell to the plans I had before. I'll take the children with me when I leave. Why should I, just to cause their father pain, Feel twice the pain myself by harming them?

Medea, Euripides

Where is Achebe from?

Nigeria

Who invented the earliest form of phonetic.as opposed to a pictographic, alphabet (before the word 'alphabet" was itself invented)?

Phoenicians

For if she flees, soon she will pursue. If she refuses gifts, rather will she give them. If she does not love, soon she will love even unwilling.

Poem 1, Sappho

"A novel is a mirror walking along the road" is a saying that represents which movement in 19-century European literature?

Realism

The notion that poetry arises from "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions" that are "recollected in tranquility" represents which movement in 19-century European literature?

Romanticism

Listen, if you can stand to, Union with the Friend means not being who you've been, being instead silence: A place: A view where language is inside seeing.

Rumi

What is dharma?

Sacred duty; do it because that's your position

Chidams long black hair as combed with oil back from his brow and down to his shoulders -- he took great care over his dress and appearance. Although he was not unresponsive to the beauty of other women in the village, and was keen to make himself charming in their eyes, his real love was for his young wife. They quarrled sometimes, but there was mutual respect too; neither could defeat the other.

Tagore, Punishment

For whom, Ur-Shanabi, have my hands been toiling? For whom has my heart's blood been poured out? For myself I have obtained no benefit, I have done a good deed for a reptile!

The Epic of Gilgamesh

if you hear he's dead, among the living no more, Build him a barrow and celebrate the funeral Your father deserves. Then marry off your mother.

The Odyssey, Homer

That is a fine heifer going by

The Tain

When the merchant is finished and stopped weeping, the demon said, "By God, I must kill you, as you killed my son, even if you weep blood."

The Thousand and One Nights

Neoclassical traits

Traditional forms, symmetry/order, reason, public oration, the familiar

Earth has not anything to show more fair: dull would be he of soul who could pass by a sight so touching in its majesty; This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

William Wordsworth, Composed upon Westminster Bridge

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boom! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, the winds that will be howling at all hours ,and are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.

William Wordsworth, The world is too much for us

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

Yeats, Irish Airman

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of spiritus mundi Trouble my sight

Yeats, The Second Coming

What languagedid Devi write in?

bengali

Symbolism and Realism Characteristics

focuses on ugliness as well as beauty, middle/lower-class characters and settings, vivid, concrete detail

Romanticism traits

imagination, private voice. the exotic, experimental forms, asymmetry/disorder

In what way is the Bhagavad-Gita syncretic?

it's Hinduism but takes from Buddhism

In what century was Medea first staged in Athens?

late 400 B.C